Yes!....Yes!...& Yes!....what is this telling you?....they are now understanding....and fixing...one of this biggest problems facing international companies.....wanting to come into Iraq...

Ask yourself this....if you had millions of dollars....worth of equipment....supplies....etc....would you want it insured through an Iraqi owned insurance company?....more than likely....NO!....

You would be concerned....that if anything happened....you probably....wouldn't be getting anything back...right?....

So now...they are looking to fix this problem...by bringing in other....foreign....insurance companies....how many..."international"....companies....do you think will start coming in now....especially carrying...there own insurance....

Do you see where this is going....wow....those pieces are falling into place.....
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Walkingstick: Long queues jam Zimbabwe banks

by Staff reporter 22 May 2016 |

Despite ongoing valiant efforts by Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya to mitigate Zimbabwe's biting cash crisis and assure wary citizens that all will be well, long and winding bank queues abounded around Zimbabwe yesterday.

Depositors who spoke to news crews from the Daily News on Sunday said they were making frantic efforts to withdraw their salaries and savings ahead of what they claimed was the "imminent" introduction of bond notes.

This comes in the wake of the recent announcement by authorities that they plan to introduce bond notes into the multi-currency market - to be backed by a $200 million loan from Afreximbank - to ease the country's cash and liquidity crises.

However, the move has been received poorly by both economic experts and ordinary Zimbabweans, who worry that this could signal a return to the much-derided Zimbabwe dollar which was abandoned seven years ago as inflation spiralled to world record levels.
"We are not leaving anything to chance as we approach month-end and people are withdrawing their salaries as soon they are deposited. It makes sense to get our money from banks and pay our bills now," a uniformed forces member who only identified himself as Itai said yesterday.

A queuing police officer who was interviewed by the Daily News on Sunday said the situation appeared to have been compounded by the fact that many civil servants had got paid on Friday, while tobacco farmers were also waiting to withdraw their money from banks.

On their part, many farmers - who are allowed to withdraw up to $10 000 a day compared to the individual maximum daily withdrawal limit of $1 000 - complained bitterly that they were failing to access their cash.

Last week, the Daily News on Sunday's sister paper, the Daily News, reported that the unwelcome state of affairs had seen illegal foreign currency dealers resurfacing in numbers around the country.

The daily established that with the country experiencing a severe cash crunch that began late last year, illegal foreign currency dealers - and in some cases bank tellers as well - had begun to do fast business, robbing desperate Zimbabweans blind in the process.
In some extreme cases, a number of bank clients claimed they had allegedly been charged an exorbitant 10 percent "commission" by tellers and dealers for electronic transfers to the accounts of money changers in return for hard cash.

A Harare street dealer even boasted that he was allegedly using his connections within certain banks to access cash and make "nice money" from this.

"I am certainly not exploiting anyone. I see myself as an entrepreneur who is helping people to have instant access to cash which might otherwise take them two to three weeks to get using normal banking channels," the dealer, who was only prepared to identify himself as Dave, said.

In Bulawayo, another dealer said she was making a killing from people changing the South African rand into US dollars, particularly "injiva" - Zimbabweans working in South Africa.
This comes as the central bank recently imposed stringent daily cash withdrawal limits to ease the current cash crisis that has seen people queuing for days at banks to access their funds.

Economic experts have also warned that the apex bank's decision to introduce bond notes within the next few months would worsen the liquidity and cash crisis, as depositors frantically withdraw their money, fearing the return of the Zimbabwean dollar - which Mangudya says is not on the cards.

Zimbabwe adopted a basket of currencies in 2009 to replace its discredited local currency which had been rendered useless by world-record hyperinflation, with many people - including poor pensioners - losing all their life savings in the process.

University of Zimbabwe economics lecturer, Ashok Chakravati, told the Daily News on Sunday that the move to introduce the bond notes was "unnecessary."

"Other countries have been in import deficit situations before and history has shown us how export bonuses are awarded without instilling panic in fragile nations.

"An export bonus is appropriate, especially in a country with no way of devaluing the currency like Zimbabwe. The bond notes route is very unnecessary," Chakravati said. Prominent businessman Shingi Munyeza said the government had to cut its own expenditure before adopting "drastic actions such as the bond notes".

"We have established that one of the main reasons why we are in this mess is that the government is over-spending. Why then is government not quickly plugging the hole and living within its means?" he asked.

In its latest damning report on Zimbabwe, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that the country's economic difficulties were set to continue and deepen - amid a grinding recession, the worsening cash crisis, mounting company closures and job losses, and a political legitimacy crisis that is refusing to go away.

"Unless the country takes bold reforms, the economic difficulties will continue in the medium-term," the fund said in a statement, after consultations with Zimbabwean officials.
Observers also say not much has gone right for Mugabe and Zanu-PF since they won the hotly-disputed elections in 2013, with the ruling party ravaged by its seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars.

rcookie Article: "An invitation to open up to private insurance companies" Quote: "...that limiting insurance to the specific company detrimental to the interests of private insurance companies and keeps them away from exercising the legal right to the promotion of all types of insurance and the right to receive a percentage..."

THAT IS A HUGE ARTICLE ABOUT OPENING UP INSURANCE COMPANIES OF PUBLIC...PRIVATE & MIXED SECTORS...AND PROVIDE FREEDOM...TO CHOOSE THE TYPE OF INSURANCE AND INSURANCE COMPANY OF CHOICE...

PRIOR TO THIS...IS THERE ANY SENSE OF REALISM...OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT & BUSINESS COMING INTO IRAQ AND SETTING UP SHOP AND INSURING THROUGH THE IRAQI STATE RUN INSURANCE SYSTEM...

THIS MOVE WILL GREATLY EXPAND AND IMPROVE SPECIFIC PROJECT COVERAGE IN ALL SECTORS...OF PRIVATE & PUBLIC ENTERPRISES...MANAGE RISK EFFECTIVELY... AND KEEP BUSINESS INSIDE OF IRAQ...PROTECT AGAINST FRAUD...AND DEVELOP ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND INSTILL CONFIDENCE IN THE MARKET...

NOW THINK OF THAT RELATIVE TO RUMORS...ANY TIME IN PAST...RIDICULOUS...AND UNREALISTIC...AND CAUSE FOR PAUSE AND EXCITEMENT FOR WHERE WE ARE NOW!

WSOMN:

AdminBill: I WAS ON A HOUR LONG CALL LAST NIGHT WITH MY FRIEND AND CONTACT IN DC. HE IS AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE OF INFO THAT HAS VERIFIED THAT WE ARE NEAR THE END OF THIS JOURNEY.

REMEMBER TO BE GRATEFUL TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE WRINGER TO BRING THIS ABOUT.

WE HAVE THE EASY PART OF THIS SAGE. WAITING AND GOING TO THE BANK.

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WingIt:

Inkmaste92: r: OK y'all just got a update... things are still good ...no hold up at all just take a longer to run tests... you know its 200+ country's is its understandable in my eyes... a lot of pinging going on right now so far its going through

Blackeyepea: Of course it's frustrating as how long have they had to sync all systems etc.

Beagleeyes: IF one bank does not do their "ping", we were told it stops. That is the reason for the trial runs.

Inkmaster92: It takes one only one to make it start over

Coloradogurl: SO TEST PINGING TO 210 BANKS, AND IF ONE DOESN'T PING, THEN THE DRILL STARTS AGAIN ? OK

Amarok: the ping worked last week, but the int'l payment system CIPS didn't begin processing transactions until last Friday. IMO, If this had happened when the BIS was processing transactions on SWIFT our funds may have been in jeopardy.

Camdoc: Let me see if I can summarize: Lead bank had a nation-wide meeting today. There were communications problems which stopped things last night, but these were found to be related to certain personnel, who were removed and replaced.

A whole new plan for releasing the GCR was put into place.

Now, to the two intel providers who had previously been designated, WMs will also be given the numbers and authorized to work with “special” pre-selected clients, mostly dinarians.

This is a comment I made for a previous post. I reiterate here with comments:
The reference to some type of failure to bring this world wide system down is simply disinformation. I worked as the technical liaison for a world wide, in every embassy, system. These type systems are always set up with REDUNDANCY to prevent this from occurring. Human and equipment failure are ever present and unavoidable and this type of system is designed so that any failure will not effect the operation of the whole system. This is not opinion it is a truism. Look else where for this stoppage.
This pinging referred to is called a handshake, and with systems of this magnitude is not occasional but on going. If any one faction does not respond it is simply bypassed and the mother system continues to operate until the errant portion is restored. We operated with a 2 to 5 % failure rate at all times due to the unreliable things alluded to. Do you actually think that our intelligence agencies would depend on a system that is controlled by outside sources? Particularly to something as vastly important as this is?You must look behind the curtain for the problem , this is not it.

TOTALLY agree with you KUU. I worked for over 24 years as an communications infrastructure project manager for a major/MAJOR multinational company and "redundancy" is always the goal in such systems.
Whomever thinks this situation of "glitches" being the issue; obviously are still in the forgone era of cathode ray tube computers.

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Oracle

5/23/2016 08:26:56 pm

Truth is, our 'intelligence agencies' aren't too bright. It's just the nature of the beast and who/what gravitates to that profession. They are more destructive than creative and have some of the most imaginative reasons for their actions. Redundancy is not the same as 'PINGING' a site. They do a handshake and an ack and they're golden. Each location sees and knows who the other site is and response in that fashion. Redundancy is a backup or failover whether passive or active. It's just not the same.

And yes, I am a genius. :-)

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Herbdude

5/23/2016 07:20:03 pm

KUU, Thank you for your common sense post. Stories of "system breakdowns" have been used as excuses for Dinar delays since Jesus was a buck private. Of course, none of them were true, but it did seem to pacify those desperate for a reason to believe. But anyone with any level of computer networking experience should have seen through this ruse. But I do understand why some would cling to those kinds of excuses; we want this to happen. Some are desperate, even dependent on it happening, and my heart goes out to them. But - the RV is going to happen when it is going to happen and not a minute before. There exists a myriad of stories on the web - one per website - all telling their own story of how and when we can expect our money. They run from the sublime to the ridiculous, and it is very likely that none of them contain much truth. Please, dear people, get on with your lives and pretend this thing doesn't even exist. It shouldn't be too hard to do as it has never showed any signs of happening. If you can't do this, you are too attached. How many times can you be told it is imminent and it has not happened, and you still believe these people who spin another yarn that your pride makes you swallow. De-mystify this thing and move on with your lives. Either way, it is only going to happen when it happens.